Steve Garrison

GOLD KING MINE, COLO. — As 3 million gallons of heavy-metal laden water made its way into Utah and headed west to Lake Powell, Environmental Protection Agency officials met at the mouth of the Gold King Mine Monday afternoon to discuss last week's breach into a tributary of the Animas River. EPA on-scene coordinator Hayes Griswold explained to San Juan County, Colo., officials that an EPA team working at the mine on Wednesday underestimated how much pressure was hidden behind the debris that pl

SILVERTON, COLO. – Silverton Standard editor Mark Esper said he had just finished lunch on Aug. 5 when he heard an unusual call over the police scanner. “I hear Sheriff (Bruce) Conrad say on the scanner – ’20-foot wall of orange sludge coming toward Silverton,'” Esper said.

Editor's note: This is the first installment of The Daily Times' occasional series on health care at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center. Find more stories on this topic at daily-times.com. FARMINGTON — The death of Sharon Rice Jones at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center is described briefly in an autopsy report produced April 6 by the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. "In the evening of January, 4, 2015, (Jones) had received pain medications and went to bed," the r

Editor's note: This is part of The Daily Times' occasional series on health care at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center. Find more stories on this topic at daily-times.com. FARMINGTON — Two of the three inmates who have died this year at the San Juan County Adult Detention Center filed formal grievances with the jail in the months before their deaths complaining about being charged for medical services, a controversial practice that a national correctional health care organization has di

Historically, the pallid sturgeon made its home in the chutes, sloughs and side channels of the floodplain of the Missouri River.

CHAMOIS — In early June, floodwaters from the Missouri River were lapping at the foundation of the Champion Apartments in Chamois, a small riverside town northeast of Jefferson City.

An informant sat down with federal investigators in September 2017 to help them untangle a drug trafficking enterprise allegedly operated by Teddia Caldwell, a 43-year-old Gary business owner and husband of Gary City Councilwoman Linda Barnes-Caldwell.

CROWN POINT — For 20 years accusations of financial impropriety have dogged Richard E. Gearhart, a 66-year-old Lowell man charged in federal court with fraud on allegations he and a co-defendant bilked more than 25 residents of at least $3.5 million through a crooked investment scheme.

SAN JUAN COUNTY — At 5 feet 7 inches tall and 200 pounds — paunchy and pale — Matthew Harrison was easy to underestimate.

LOWER FRUITLAND, N.M. — Residents of this small rural community on Wednesday tried to come to grips with the brutal murder of an 11-year-old Navajo girl after her body was discovered near the Shiprock pinnacle the day before.